Blackhill

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blackhill, from 27 m² to 191,971 m² (19.2 ha, 47.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Blackhill in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 4 Mar 2026Refused

  hardcore surface storage area referred to in UD5294. Full planning permission is also sought for the removal of the existing entrance and access track and reinstatement of same to farmland, construction of new entrance and access track, extension of the hardcore yard, construction of new landscaped screening banks to parts of the eastern and western boundaries, all associated planting, ancillary works and the material change of use from agricultural use to allow for storage of unprocessed timber for the purpose of drying same

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2649

• 2 May 2023N/a

  retention of the hardcore surface storage area referred to in UD5294; full planning permission is also sought for the removal of the existing entrance and access track and reinstatement of same to landscaping; construction of the new entrance and access track; extension of the hardcore yard; construction of the new landscaped screening banks to parts of the Eastern and Western boundaries; all associated ancillary works and the material change of use from agricultural use to allow for storage of timber for the purpose of drying same

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 23425

• 27 Oct 2022Refused

  the widening of the existing farm entrance, upgrade of existing farm track and retention of the hardcore surface of this track and storage area referred to in UD5294. Full planning permission is also sought for the upgrade of the existing entrance, removal of areas of the hardcore track and reinstatement of same to landscaping, extension of the hardcore yard, construction of new landscaped screening banks to parts of the Eastern and Western boundaries, all associated ancillary works and the material change of use from agricultural use to allow for storage of timber for the purpose of drying and parking of the applicants own commercial vehicles

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 221140

• 19 May 2021Conditional

  construction of a four-bedroom part two-storey, part single-storey house, with 4 no. rooflights, a single storey domestic garage, new direct road access, a new septic tank and percolation area, landscaping and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21581

• 24 Jun 2019Conditional

  dwelling, on site treatment unit and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19672

• 8 Jun 2018Conditional

  pitched roof over existing cottage and extension, alterations and extensions to rear with ground floor extension (26 sqm) rooflight and all associated site works. Permission for new sewage treatment plant and polishing filter.

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 18634

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Blackhill.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Blackhill.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Blackhill.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Blackhill.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Blackhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Blackhill · An Cnoc Dubh

Area

345,035 m² (34.5 ha, 85.26 acres)

Civil parish

Dunlavin, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Lower

Electoral division

Dunlavin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunlavin electoral division: 1,580 people in 526 households; 66% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boherboy, Brewershill, Forristeen, Friarhill, Plezica

Placenames

Blackhill on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.